HOUSEBOATSTUDIO NEWSLETTER
May 2009
In this issue:
- Mustache Challenge
- Chris Charney Art
- Zen Garden at 500ft
- Critter Update
- Tool Tips
- Friday Links
Face the truth: You'd look great with a mustache.
Mustache is the new black.
Straight to the point: We issued a mustache challenge in last month's newsletter, and so far the results are stunning.
View mustaches, talk 'stache trash, and submit your own work of mustached art. You can also submit a mustache by emailing us with your mustache at mustaches@houseboatstudio.com.
New website design:
Chris Charney. Gnarly art, dude.
Berkeley, CA - HOUSEBOATSTUDIO has just recently finished helping Berkeley based surfer, painter and muralist Chris Charney unveil a rad new website. The site, which is toally bodacious, showcases some of Charney's trippy surf art and large-scale murals that are found all around California.
Check out Chris' new website and awesome art: www.charneyart.com
Design project:
Zen Garden at 500ft
Atlanta, GA - A recent design project by Nate entailed a zen garden on the 39th floor of a skyscraper in Atlanta. The client wished to have a minimalistic garden and meditation area utilize over 400sf of the high end condo's balcony space.
The chosen deisgn includes cascading bamboo planters and a Japanese maple in the corner to anchor the feng shui.
Silence--a strangled
Telephone has forgotten
That it is ringing¨
Illustration project update:
Florida Critters!
Tallahassee, FL - Ben has finished all 40 line-art versions of the critter illustrations. After some revisions for scientific accuracy and heated debates on animal expressions, the illustrations made it through the gauntlet of biologists over at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Somehow. Who knew Armadillos don't wear sunglasses for disguise?? Well, the illustrations are now clear for coloring (in progress).
Get a sneak peak of the entire collection of critters by visiting their new HOUSEBOATSTUDIO illustration gallery page:
www.houseboatstudio.com/illustration/~critters.html
Nate’s Tool Tips
By Nate W. Johnson: Furniture Builder, Genius
Woodworking tips in case of emergency
- Bears. They can wreck havok on a woodshop. Be sure to keep at least one large rock at arms distance while working during the months ending in "r".
- If your safety glasses fall off during a precision cut, don't stop! Squint really hard and blow air upward toward your eyes. You might even try closing your eyes. Eventually, you'll be really good at precision cuts.
- Cut your finger off again? This is hardly an emergency. More like a right of passage for any woodworker worth a damn.
- In case of economic crisis in the country you live in, take a step back and ask yourself: "why the hell did I decide to become a woodworker?"
- Nobody is buying your furniture: now there’s an emergency. A good solution to this is to stop writing tool tips and work harder on your stinkin' designs.
- If you ever have a bad day I strongly suggest you buy some custom built furniture, It will make you look a lot better (in addition to your sweet mustache).
Next month: How to calibrate a calibrator.
Friday Links
These links will increase your productivity, double your intelligence and save you money.
- Mustached American Discount Card - Sign up for the card. Tell em we sent you.
- McCarrica Music Videos - A live feed from Sasquach Lake Research Facility. Don't let CNN get a hold of this.
- Bizarre Pet Shop - British artist Bansky opens a unique pet shop in Greenwich Village
- The United States of Mind - Who knew?
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